PJ Harvey has confirmed the release of a new album at the start of February. The new album is called Let England Shake and will come out on February 14 through Island Records.
The album was recorded in a 19th Century church in Dorset with long time collaborator Flood, who co-produced the record along with Harvey and John Parish. As you’d also expect, with the album comes live shows.
Is it just me or has R.E.M been around for the last 100 years. R.E.M have just finished recording their 15th studio album (thats right 15th!), which is set to be released by Warner Bros. Records in the Spring of 2011.
The band has re-teamed with Grammy Award-winning producer Jacknife Lee, who produced R.E.M.’s acclaimed previous album Accelerate. R.E.M. and Lee have been recording in New Orleans at the Music Shed and in Berlin at the famed Hansa Studios, where several legendary albums, including David Bowie’s Heroes, U2’s Achtung Baby, and Iggy Pop’s Lust for Life, were made.
Radiohead is one of the worlds most influencial bands and they are set to release a new album. Pitchfork reports that in an interview with the BBC 6 yesterday, Radiohead drummer Phil Selway mentioned that they are hoping to release their new album this year.
“’It’s genuinely exciting. It’s very different from what we did last time. It’s really nice to be doing this,’ he said, contrasting the sessions with the recording of In Rainbows, which he referred to as “a slog.”
“’Ideally, it would be great if it came out sometime this year. It has got to; I hope so. We’re at the finishing line. When you’re making a record, a film, write a book for ages and ages you think the finishing line is miles away. Now it feels it’s in touching distance. But of course, it being a creative process, at the last bit also, you have bursts of energy, you achieve a lot of things in a small period of time and then you’re nearly there. It might slow down. But yeah, hopefully it will be a matter of weeks.’”
In other Radiohead news, Selway’s first solo record, Familial, will be released on August 30, 2010.
On Tuesday Eminem’s new album Recovery started leaking across torrent sites way ahead of its 22nd June release date. The Eminem album is now spreading quickly, and data partner BigChampagne confirmed the veracity of early leak reports. That includes an early spotting on What.cd, and eventually a wider selection of other sites.
Arcade Fire have named their third album The Suburbs. According to Spin, The Suburbs will be released on August 3rd, was recorded in New York and Montreal, and produced by the band. The disc will be preceded by a 12” single featuring the songs noted above, and the album itself will be released in a multitude of ways to ensure that you won’t download it illegally, as well as pay far too much, including CD format, a digital download, and a “$44.99 package that includes double 12″ vinyl, a digital version, and a signed, limited edition poster.”
Internationally renowned Rocky Dawuni describes his new album, recorded during the recent transformative U.S. Presidential election and released today, as an uplifting exploration of social and global consciousness.
The album reflects the common spiritual, political and social aspirations felt around the world. His track “Download the Revolution” appears on Electronic Arts’ video game FIFA Soccer 2010 which has already sold millions of copies and is now available on iTunes. “African Soccer Fever/African Reggae Fever” was also just released on EA’s FIFA World Cup 2010 Videogame.
“Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop,” a new song from Lindsay Lohan, has been leaked to the Internet.
Lindsay has been working on the album since 2007 after signing with Universal Motown. It seems that the Motown name has just become a waste of time!
The leak of “Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop” (and another song, “Stuck,” which was released exclusively to Perez Hilton for airplay earlier in the year) suggests that the actress/singer could be returning her focus to a music career.
Buy or Listen to Linday Lohan here:
Grizzly, possibly pretentious, definitely idiosyncratic, not-quite-40 electronic wizard James Murphy is lining himself up for a year of pain. Having spent the last year and a half working on the soundtrack to Noah Baumbach’s new film Greenberg, and his own forthcoming album ‘This Is Happening’, he’s got a rather full looking touring schedule up on his website, including a lot of European festival dates (his UK shows are mostly sold out).
Let us fuel our excitement about these upcoming events by watching the newly released video for the first single, which is titled Drunk Girls. The album will be released on the 17th of May, and there are more odd videos up on the LCD Soundsystem website.
The fabulously soulful Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings just played at NPR’s SXSW showcase, and are streaming their new album ‘I Learned The Hard Way’ for free through the NPR website. These guys knock Amy Winehouse into a cocked hat, and have a richness and fidelity of sound that has come straight from the seventies. For the purists among you, there’s an LP available from their record label’s online store here. Here’s why they think you should buy their album:
Produced by Bosco Mann and recorded on an Ampex eight-track tape machine by Gabriel Roth in Daptone Records’ House of Soul studios, this record drips with a warmth and spontaneity rarely found since the golden days of Muscle Shoals and Stax. Sharon’s raw power, rhythmic swagger, moaning soulfulness, and melodic command set her firmly alongside Tina Turner, James Brown, Mavis Staples, and Aretha as a fixture in the canon of soul music. From the lushPhilly-Soul fanfare that ushers in “The Game Gets Old” at the top of the record, to the stripped down Sam Cooke-style“Mama Don’t Like My Man” at the tail, the Dap-Kings dance seamlessly through both the most crafted and simple arrangements with subtlety and discipline. I Learned the Hard Way is the “Daptone Sound” at its finest.
MGMT’s new album, Congratualtions found it’s way onto the file sharing ecosphere over the weekend, so in a striking move to make the best of a bad situation, Columbia and MGMT decided to put the whole thing up to stream for free on the band’s website:
Hey everybody, the album leaked, and we wanted you to be able to hear it from us. We wanted to offer it as a free download but that didn’t make sense to anyone but us.
Which is a pretty cool way of going about things, if you ask us. Bound to generate interest in the band and their music, and more of a gift to their fans than a capitulation to the pirates. Music has changed so drastically that bands are having to combat leaks and pirates in new ways, and we really hope this strategy pays off for the band. Go visit the site, get a t-shirt, buy the album in legit music stores, and stream it on Spotify, and let’s make sure they get their dues.
